Thousands in Indy protest RFRA law
Source: Indianapolis Star
Thousands gathered in Downtown Indianapolis on Saturday to protest the passage this week of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The protesters chanted and held signs as they marched from Monument Circle to the Indiana Statehouse to express their displeasure at Gov. Mike Pence's signing of the religious freedom legislation on Thursday.
"No hate in our state," "Our State! Who's State?" and "Fix the bill" were some of the chants being heard in the background at the We Are Indiana rally,
An unidentified State Police trooper estimated that as many as 3,000 were in attendance at the height of the rally,
Read more: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/03/28/hundreds-in-indy-protest-rfra-law/70594058/
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,611 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,124 posts)Could not make it happen, but I'm excited by the turnout!
WillTwain
(1,489 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)WillTwain
(1,489 posts)Hoosier, Hoser, Loser
Hoser is closer so Hoosier
Loser is closer to reality
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)gademocrat7
(10,656 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Their reply is if you don't like it just leave the state.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)bvf
(6,604 posts)they'll shriek, "Persecution!"
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)He's got a video up called "Indianas on a roll. But theres one thing holding us back..."
Lot's of fine folks are helping explain to him what's really holding Indiana back.
https://www.facebook.com/mikepence
riversedge
(70,204 posts)captainarizona
(363 posts)The demonstrators should shut down the interstate highway it was very effective in the anti police violence campaign. I have written a screenplay on the effectiveness of people's roadblocks at:thealamoisavenged.com Also demand college presidents pull their teams from playing in indiana with college demonstrations and occupations of presidents office. Go after republican candidates running for office especially for president starting with the homophobes huckaboob and cruz. In 1968after the chicago convention police riot demonstrators would chant the whole world is watching at every candidate event so they couldn't campaign forcing humpty dumpty to be more anti-war then he wanted to be. Go get um and don't stop!
shrike
(3,817 posts)Unless I misunderstand the wording, it means you can ignore a law if it goes against your religious beliefs. Use your imagination. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)And it will be perfectly legal in Indiana.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)These so-called religious protection laws are just a covert way to bring back Jim Crow laws and legal segregation as it was in the south in the pre-civil rights era.
The damned SCOTUS already killed the voting rights act and now these hateful religious sharia laws will bring back legal separation of the races and discrimination against gay people.
eggplant
(3,911 posts)...it's like Eastern Time, but they set their clocks one century earlier.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)"exercise of religion" means " any exercise of religion, whether compelled by, or central to, a system of religious belief"
The law is a hodgepodge of vagueness that permits discrimination and then compels the government to act to stop the discrimination and then ties the hands of the judicial branch because the burden is on the government to show there is discrimination.
That is what it is, and the legal beagles of the GOP are hiding behind the "the courts will take care of it", while undermining the courts.
It may appear clever, but it is transparently evil and a stark violation of the federal supreme law.
caraher
(6,278 posts)I give you the First Church of Cannabis:
Church founder Bill Levin, who filed paperwork with the Secretary of State's office to register the church as a non-profit, posted to his Facebook page that church and its "cannataerians" would seek "love, understanding and good health."
<snip>
According to Levin's Facebook page, members of the First Church of Cannabis will be asked for individual donations of $4.20 a month.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)caraher
(6,278 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)which are not, on a case by case basis?
caraher
(6,278 posts)The law is even very clear that you need not even show your religious belief is something central to your religion, or point to any evidence that others in your religion share your view. You just have to be "sincere."
So I guess on a case-by-case basis, courts are to test one's sincerity.
Marthe48
(16,949 posts)Jesus Christ himself told the people he was talking to: "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto the Lord what is the Lord's" This law disobeys human and divine law and ignores the separation of church and state. Why are people like this elected?
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)You mean we need to hear voices in our head to get the full meaning of such law?
Marthe48
(16,949 posts)if rightwingers are spouting religion to justify their extremism, I want them to know I know they are way off. On behalf of everything else I care about, I do not accept their twisted view of faith, and I'll quote the Bible ACCURATELY at them when they do crap like this. Chapter and verse.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)They just use His name as a weapon of hate sadly.
If they followed the teachings of Jesus there would be no religious right wing at all.
And they sure as heck would not be republicans, the protectors of the rich and haters of the poor!
PassingFair
(22,434 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)away -
If so, it might be dangerous for their team to go at all. Will the good citizens even call an ambulance if they see you injured, or deny that too?
If I am a parent, I might consider your school or business negligent if something happens that seems perfectly predictable right now. They better be spending some money being careful, else there may be some big lawsuits ahead.
ISIS must love Pence. Are they donating to his campaign? He is showing how we could be just like them.
maindawg
(1,151 posts)in lawsuits. I hope the gay lawyers association hounds these assholes to the ends of the earth. So many bad things will happen , then the KKK will start their shit and the ACLU brings this all the way to the supreme court.
Any organization that does not exit Indiana such as the NCAA ,should be held accountable in the most aggressive ways possible.
The founders were very clear on this point.
riversedge
(70,204 posts)Dat White Genocider ?@Anomaly100 6m6 minutes ago
Hey Mike Pence, look at 'em all. Thousands of them protesting the discrimination bill you signed. #BoycottIndiana
riversedge
(70,204 posts)Petition-->NCAA, Move the Big 10 Football Championship out of Indianapolis https://www.change.org/p/ncaa-to-move-the-big-ten-football-championship-out-of-indianapolis #BoycottIndiana #LGTB
Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)Send Mike Pence and the Indiana legislators a message: Don't let the churches push you around."
Aldo Leopold
(685 posts)Bozvotros
(785 posts)If it was called "Restraining Fanatical Religious Asshats"